Hair dye - A tool of female beauty or a health hazard?

Hair - one of the fastest and most effective ways to make changes in their own appearance, add the image of the missing punch line, finally, get rid of some problems with the hair, whether it is brushing gray or color alignment regrown hair roots. However, this method make a difference in appearance is one drawback - the damage that causes the paint not only the hair but, according to recent research, health in general.

Paint and damages hair 

What is often bad for the health of hair coloring - a fact long known but often ignored by women. Meanwhile, the abuse of staining can sometimes cause irreparable damage to the hair. This is due to intense exposure to the hair and scalp of chemicals that are part of almost any paint. Most harmful for the hair is resistant paint, which includes ammonia. In such a paint has many advantages - it is a very long time kept on the hair color remains saturated for several months, made a shade does not disappear after washing your hair. However, deficiencies in resistant paint no less than advantages: Ammonia, which provides the paint stability effect, has a detrimental impact on the health of hair. Fastness due to the fact that ammonia penetrating into the structure of hair, makes scales, and close to the hair surface and forming an upper protective layer, to unfold, thereby providing penetration of hair dye in the internal layers of hair. The absence of such a protective layer leads to the fact that hair gradually begin to lose nutrients and become brittle, lose their strength and shine. Very often, regular hair dye resistant paint accompanied by such widespread problems with hair like split ends, dry and lifeless hair.


Another unhealthy hair dye ingredient - hydrogen peroxide that is used to lighten hair. Of course, in modern paints concentration of the substance is much smaller and, hence, less risk and cause irreparable hair harm to "burn" the hair. Nevertheless, we must remember that hydrogen peroxide desiccate hair, as a result they become brittle, dull and lifeless.


Experts recommend when choosing a hair color to draw attention to its composition - in particular, the concentration contained in the paint ammonia and hydrogen peroxide. Of ammonia paints should be abandoned altogether, choosing hair dye, the concentration of peroxide, which is no more than 6-9%.